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Professor Rob Kitchin

Director,
National Institute of Regional and Spatial Analysis (NIRSA)

Rob Kitchin]

John Hume Building,
National University of Ireland, Maynooth
County Kildare, Ireland

Tel: +353 1 708 3372
Fax: +353 1 708 6456
E-mail: rob.kitchin@nuim.ie
Web page: www.nuim.ie/nirsa/people/admin/kitchin.shtml

Appointments by email

Research Interests

My research interests tend to wander, but all are situated within a geographical framework and most often focus on Ireland. In recent years I have worked on the following issues: software, Internet, air travel, sexuality, disability, cartography, cross-border planning and data issues, philosophy and human geography

Recent Funded Research Grants and Awards

Year Amount Project
2008 €70,000 New Ways of Mapping Social Exclusion in Dublin City. Dublin City Development Board (Bartley, B. and Kitchin, R).
2007 €94,565.04 ‘HEA Equipment grant’ (Gray, J. and Kitchin, R.)
€16.5m
(NUIM share: €6.3m)		 Irish Social Sciences Platform. Links NUIM, NUIG, UL, DCU, UCC, QUB, ITS, MIC. Programme for Research for Third Level Institutions 4, HEA (Kitchin, R. (lead coordinator) and others
2006 €995,010 'International Centre for Local and Regional Development', Irish Government, 0 (R.M. Kitchin and Others).

Publications

Recent Books

  • Hubbard, P.,  Kitchin, R. and Valentine, G. (Eds) (2008)  Key Texts in Human Geography.  Sage, London. PB: 9781412922616, HB: 9781412922609

  • Gleeson, J., Kitchin, R. Bartley, B., Driscoll, J. Foley, R., Fotheringham, S. and Lloyd, C. (2008) The Atlas of the Island of Ireland. AIRO/ICLRD, Naas. HB: 0-901519-91-X.
  • Kitchin, R. (Ed) (2007) (Ed) Mapping Worlds: International Perspectives on Social and Cultural Geographies. Taylor and Francis. HB: 0-415-43828-4.
  • Bartley, B. and Kitchin, R. (Eds) (2007) Understanding Contemporary Ireland. Pluto Press, London PB: 0-7453-2594-7, HB 0-7453-2595-5.
  • Kitchin, R. and Fuller, D. (2005) The Academic’s Guide to Publishing. Sage, London. PB: 1-4129-0083-2; HB 1-4129-0082-4.

Selected Recent Articles

  • Crowley, U. and Kitchin, R. (2008)  Producing ‘decent’ girls: governmentality and the moral geographies of sexual conduct in Ireland (1922-1937). Gender, Place and Culture 15(4): 355-372
  • Dodge, M. and Kitchin, R. (2007) Rethinking maps. Progress in Human Geography 31(3): 1-14.
  • Dodge, M. and Kitchin, R. (2007) The automatic management of drivers and driving spaces. Geoforum 38(2): 264-275.
  • Dodge, M. and Kitchin, R. (2005) Codes of life: Identification codes and the machine-readable world. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space. 23(6): 851-881.
  • Dodge, M. and Kitchin, R. (2005) Code and the transduction of space. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 95(1): 162-180.

External Assignments and Public Service

  • Book Series Editor, Key Concepts in Human Geography. Sage, London
  • Consulting Editor, Information Technology, Education and Society
  • International Editorial Board, GeoJournal
  • International Editorial Board, Journal of Location Based Services
  • International Editorial Board, Journal of Environmental Psychology
  • International Advisory Board, Graduate Journal of Social Sciences
  • Member of the Census Advisory Group, Central Statistics Office, 2008-
  • Member of National Consultative Panel, National Economic and Social Development Office, 2007-08
  • Director, Executive Board, International Centre for Local and Regional Development